Read Stephen’s commentary in the New Zealand Herald on the TPP negotiations and why they are good for New Zealand business – here.

Endgame is a play by the absurd dramatist Samuel Beckett. It’s also how the anticipated last hurrah for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations in Maui last week was described. And there was quite a lot of the absurd as pressure mounted on negotiators and the wildest speculation about developments circulated in the media back here.